Question: The ruins of a sugar mill can be found on the Dunlawton Plantation, now known as Sugar Mill Gardens, in Port Orange. What theme park was located on the grounds from 1948 to 1952?
Answer: Bongoland
Bongoland was an early Florida theme park (1948-1952) on the plantation grounds, named for a trained baboon, Bongo, who lived there. The theme park featured a miniature train, a replica Seminole village, and “prehistoric monsters” made by cement worker M.D. Manny Lawrence, out of concrete and chicken wire.
